On June 6, 1968, in the midst of his campaign for president, Robert F. Kennedy died from an assassin’s bullet. Two days later, on June 8, after a funeral mass in New York City, his casket was placed on a special train bound for Arlington National Cemetery. A journey that should have taken hours took all day, as thousands of Americans lined the 225 miles of track in a spontaneous outpouring of grief. Photographer Paul Fusco was on the train, and ended up taking more than a thousand pictures from his window. These images can be seen in the Aperture publication Paul Fusco: RFK.

Now, on the 43rd anniversary of the event, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Stoddart and HBO brig Fusco’s images to life. Told by those who appeared in Fusco’s images as they stood on the tracks 43 years ago, One Thousand Pictures: R.F.K’s Last Journey chronicles the complex impact of Kennedy’s assassination on the country.

Aperture is honored to host a panel discussion featuring Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, filmmaker Jennifer Stoddart, and gallertist James Danziger to discuss the images and their ongoing impact.

In 2008 Aperture published Paul Fusco: RFK during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in Los Angeles while campaigning for the presidential nomination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco’s acclaimed RFK Funeral Train, a body of work heralded as a contemporary classic. This historical new publication features over seventy never-before-seen images, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress’s Look Magazine Photograph Collection.

Paul Fusco a member of Magnum Photos since 1974, began his career photographing for the U.S. Signal Core during the Korean War. He studied photojournalism at Ohio University and his work has been widely published and exhibited, including exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, and the International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France.

Monday, June 6, 6:30 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
New York

Exclusive film debut on HBO2:
Wednesday, June 8, 8:00 pm.

Click here for more details about the event.

Click here to purchase a limited edition print by Paul Fusco.

Photo by Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos

Antiphotojournalism, a new exhibition at La Virreina Centre de l’Imatge in Barcelona, identifies recent transformations and expansions of the field of photojournalism. Curated by Charles Guerra and Aperture magazine contributing editor Thomas Keenan, the exhibition brings together works that have challenged conventions of the practice and have created unexpected relationships between the image and social struggle.

Featured in the exhibition are works by Magnum photographer Gilles Peress, who was featured in Aperture magazine issue 191, Paul Fusco, whose Paul Fusco: RFK was published by Aperture in 2008, Susan Meiselas, featured in Aperture magazine issue 193, Laura Kurgan, in Aperture magazine issue 178, Walid Raad, in Aperture magazine issue 198, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg, featured in Aperture magazine issue 185, and Ariella Azoulay, a contributor to the web exclusive, Photography and Human Rights.

Antiphotojournalism
July 5th – October 10th, 2010

La Virreina Centre de l’Imatge
La Rambla, 99
Barcelona, Spain

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In the days following the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, photographer Paul Fusco, on assignment for Look Magazine, photographed the hundreds of thousands of mourners. From aboard the funeral train transporting Kennedy’s coffin from New York to D.C. Fusco captured with his camera the crowds of people waiting by the side of the railroad tracks to pay their last respects.

A monograph of this powerful and classic body of work was published by Aperture in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s death, and an exhibition organized by Magnum Photos is now on view at the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Florida through May 2nd.

If you are in the area take advantage of this great opportunity to view an important photographic document of American history and a defining work for this accomplished photographer.

RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
February 13 – May 2, 2010

Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Buy Paul Fusco’s RFK

Buy a limited edition print from the RFK series

Just announced! Photo-eye Magazine’s list of Best Photo Books 2008. Congratulations to all who are recognized, most notably Josef Koudelka’s Invasion 68: Prague, which made the Top 12 list.

Publisher of the Aperture Book Program, Lesley A. Martin’s list can be viewed here. Darius Himes, Publisher and Co-founder of Radius Books chose Martin Parr’s eclectic work, Parrworld as one of his favorites of the year. Michelle Dunn Marsh, Senior  Art+Design Editor, Chronicle Books nominated two Aperture titles, Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness* and Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse* by Jock Sturges both are available signed from Aperture. Aperture works recognized by PDN include Paul Fusco: RFK* and Travelers*by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz. Also nominated was Jonas Bendiksen’s powerful work documenting urban slum dwellings in The Places We Live*.

Be sure to check out Aperture’s bookstore to purchase these incredible titles. Order your copy of Invasion 68: Prague here today!

*Signed copies available through Aperture.

Two Callas, c. 1925, Imogene Cunningham

Today is the last day that you can order from aperture.org and receive Ground shipping for Christmas delivery. The Holiday Sale continues with 30% off Books, 15% off Limited-Edition Photographs, and 50% off Gift Subscriptions to Aperture magazine. A few items are exempted from the sale, but most of our new season of limited-edition photographs were just added, including prints from the Imogene Cunningham Trust, Paul Fusco, and Takashi Homma.

Magnum Holiday Book Party

Book signing and Reception
Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

FREE

Join Aperture Monday evening as we host the Magnum Holiday Book Party, with over twenty Magnum photographers including Elliott Erwitt, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Paul Fusco, Larry Towell, Martine Franck, Paolo Pellegrin, Richard Kalvar, Mark Power, Peter Marlow, and many more. Limited-edition prints, rare and new books will be available for purchase. A special gift book by Alec Soth is included with every purchase.

Mary Pelletier on November 16, 2008 8:11 PM

Aperture, The Strand Bookstore and Pratt Institute Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS),will celebrate the launch of The Eye on the Strand photo contest. Amateur and professional photographers alike from all over the world are invited to submit their photo representations of the Strand Bookstore for a chance to win an afternoon with internationally-renowned photographer Mary Ellen Mark, a collection of fifty photobooks published by Aperture, and more. A group exhibition will take place at Pratt CCPS Gallery in the summer of 2009 to include all of the winning images.

Aperture artists scheduled to attend, sign their books, and mingle with fans include Michal Chelbin, Donna Ferrato, Paul Fusco, Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Stephen Shames, and Hank Willis Thomas, among others.

The Eye on the Strand photo contest will run from November 6, 2008, through February 27, 2009.

Launch Party:
Wednesday, November 19, 7:00 p.m.

Strand Book Store
828 Broadway (at 12th Street)
2nd floor/Art Department
(212) 473-1452

FREE

Paul Fusco at PhotoPlus East, New York City, October 23, 2008.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Aperture Foundation booth during PhotoPlus East last week. Thousands of people came to the largest photography trade show in the Northeast and those who came by the Aperture booth got to see the new season of fabulous photography books (like the Tinyvices series), brand new, affordable limited-edition prints and the hot-off-the press winter issue of Aperture magazine. Magnum photographer Paul Fusco was there on Thursday to sign copies of Paul Fusco: RFK and PDN 30 winner Michal Chelbin signed copies of her new Aperture monograph, Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes on Friday.

Michel Chelbin (far left) signing copies of her monograph at PhotoPlus East, October 24, 2008.

Visit Aperture at Booth #763 at PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo, the most important equipment show in the industry, going on now.

October 23-25, 2008
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York, New York

See the latest digital cameras, imaging software, and other cutting-edge technologies and equipment that are shaping the world of photography.

At Aperture’s booth #763, preview our new books, magazine, and limited-edition prints. Also, join us for the following book signings:

Thursday, October 23, 2:00 p.m.
Paul Fusco signing Paul Fusco: RFK

Friday, October 24, 2:00 p.m.
Michal Chelbin signing Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes

Click here and register to receive a FREE pass to the exhibit hall.

You can already feel Autumn on the way in New York and Aperture’s Fall season of books is in full swing. Now available for sale are the titles listed here, Erwin Olaf, Paul Fusco: RFK, The Places We Live, photographs by Jonas Bendiksen, Parrworld: Objects and Postcards, by Martin Parr, and Invasion 68: Prague, photographs by Josef Koudelka coinciding with the exhbiition soon to be on view at Aperture Gallery and Pace MacGill Gallery. To see upcoming titles view our Fall Preview.